Our Heroes & Douchebags of the week so far...

HEROES

Gemma Arterton

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Placard-wielding Gemma joined the real-life Dagenham strikers and MP Gloria De Piero outside Parliament this week. Why? To press for wage equality. The Bond girl, who's playing the lead role in Made in Dagenham, the West End musical adaptation of female car workers in Essex who campaigned for equal pay, took to Twitter to celebrate the "special day," saying: "It makes me feel all warm inside". A girl after our own hearts!

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The comedian who cracked this joke

Last year's Christmas cracker joke (What does Miley Cyrus have at Christmas? Twerky!) might just have taken some beating.

This year's cracker "What will be missing from Take That's Christmas stocking this year? An Orange" won 2014's competition ran by TV comedy channel Gold which challenged amateur comedians to create their own festive gags.

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Student Dominique Harrison-Bentzen

The 22 year old lost her bankcard on a night out in Preston and realised she couldn't get home until kind-hearted homeless man, Robbie, came to her rescue, offering her his last remaining £3 so she could get a taxi home. She was so touched that she's created the Help Robbie fund, raising more than a life-changing £12,000 for him. The website has proved so popular that it crashed.

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The nicest man in Britain

It seems like it's good deed week! Luke Cameron is reaching the end of his 365-day challenge carrying out a random act of kindness everyday. His daily good deeds have ranged from baking cakes for colleagues, waking up at 5:30am to help a friend move house and taking out rubbish for his elderly neighbours.

The 26 year old from Cheltenham records every kind gesture on his website, Good Deed Diary, which has since amassed more than 12,000 'likes' on Facebook. He told GLAMOUR HQ that his most memorable reaction was a mother crying and hugging him after he bought her daughter a meal in a takeaway on her birthday - aww!

But the Cheltenham-based Good Samaritan isn't finished. He's planning another 365 days of selflessness in 2015 - incredible stuff!

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The celebs hit the Audi International polo in Ascot

The celebs – and royal family – were out in force at the weekend as Audi threw their annual polo bash

05 Aug 2013

An inspiring nine-year-old girl

Our hearts melted when we came across this letter to her teacher when he came out as gay, with her teacher welling up after reading it. She wrote: "Even though you're gay, I will always treat you the same way as I do now".

She could definitely teach the world a thing or two!

Sharon Osbourne

Losing a tooth is bad enough, but live on air?!

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Sharon Osbourne found herself in this sticky situation whilst filming The Talk but she carried on - what a champ!

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Rita Ora

Rita Ora said her "legs were like jelly" as she sang for Barack Obama and wife Michelle at the 33rd annual Christmas in Washington party. Ours would be too…

DOUCHEBAGS

People who shared selfies at the Sydney siege

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Onlookers outside the Martin Place siege, which claimed two lives, couldn't resist uploading smiling selfies of themselves, with one man even sharing a photo of himself with a fire engine in the background, accompanied by #hostagesituationselfie.

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Ask Gemma Arterton a question!

Twitter users took to social media to vent, with one user tweeting: "what's wrong with these people?" and another branding them "shameless".

Wrong.

Someone who was prepared to spend £10k on someone's tie

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We could think of a lot of things to spurge with £1,600 but a tie worn by former first minister Alex Salmond? But that's what Scottish Independence supporter Russell Wardrop did - and he was even prepared to spend as much as £10,000 on it... WTF!?

The wage equality gap

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British Fashion Awards 2012

All the photos from British fashion's big night out

28 Nov 2012

Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams were paid £350,000 less that their male counterparts in American Hustle according to hacked emails from Sony Pictures. Why is still OK for a woman to get paid less for doing the exact job a man does?

Kim & Kanye (but not if you're North West)

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North West is going to have a very special Christmas after her parents might be splashing out on more than £60,000 worth of gifts including a diamond-encrusted tiara and a mini SUV worth £10,000. Not your average stocking filler then...

Former UKIP candidate Kerry Smith

One of UKIP's most promising candidates was forced to resign after a leaked recording of him making a string of vile racist and homophobic remarks. Kerry Smith branded gay people as "poofters" and referred to another as a "chinky bird".

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Good riddance!

The woman who fought over a vibrator

Is a vibrator worth going to jail for? Heidi Creamer, 48, found out the hard way after getting herself arrested for punching, scratching and kicking her sister over a vibrator, leaving her bloodied and bruised. Maybe the batteries ran out?!